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Shop ‘n’ Save Wars

Shop ‘n’ Save

There is a Shop ‘n’ Save near where I live that will give you stamps proportional to the amount that you spend. You can collect these stamps for rebates. I’m not sure if it’s a company-wide initiative, but it happens here. And that’s all that matters for this story.

Outside the Shop ‘n’ Save, you’ll find two, maybe three middle-aged women. They are like harpies waiting to prey on your innocent soul, because if you went in and bought a few things, they’d besiege and badger you. They have their eyes on your stamps. You’ll never see it coming until it’s too late. You’ll never be prepared to put up a fight. The only thing you can do is to let your legs take over and run. Run and don’t look back.

Recently, these stamp-muggers have become somewhat more emboldened, or perhaps more jealous. They’ve taken to competing with one another. They snatch stamps out of one another’s hands and whine like little children when an innocent Shop ‘n’ Save customer hands his or her stamps to one mugger but not the other. You promised! they exclaim. These stamps were supposed to be mine! Gimme that!

So if ever you enter a Shop ‘n’ Save, wanting to buy some mineral water and cigarettes, and the cashier hands you rebate stamps after you make your payment, take a good look outside. Watch for the stamp-muggers.

Shipped!

My Beatles Stereo Box Set has shipped and will be arriving, I suspect, next week or the week after. Yay.

Motherwell Football Club

Frazer Boyle has legally changed his name to that of his favourite football club, and will now be addressed as Mr. Motherwell Football Club. [via ESPNsoccernet (Right at the bottom)]

Dinosaur

Archaeopteryx was less bird and more dinosaur. Rawr. [via Scientific American]

Ma Jian

Did I already say that Ma Jian will be at the Singapore Writers Festival? [via Singapore Writers Festival] I guess saying it again wouldn’t hurt.

And it’s Monday again. Here’s to a rollicking week ahead.

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